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1 de maig 2020

Orwell, the Spanish Civil War and propaganda

"...Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in
a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports
which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship
which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where
there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men
had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as
cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed
as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London
retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional
superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact,
history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to
have happened according to various ‘party lines’..."